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Rockland, MA: Osborne & Barry, Steam Printers, 1888. Small octavo, 111 pages. First edition. Community cookbook with all recipes attributed. In maroon textured wrappers with gilt titles. Minute edgewear and crease to rear wrapper, otherwise fine. [OCLC locates two copies, at Harvard and Old Colony Library Network in MA; not in Bitting or Cagle].
Ocala Florida: T.A. Orr & Co.; [no printer identified, undated; circa 1880s]. Broadside advertisement (45 x 30 cm.), [2] pages. On bright yellow paper. Handsome illustrated broadside, advertising Christmas shopping at T.A. Orr's drug and stationery shop in Ocala, Florida. The broadside is undated, but we place it in the 1880s, based on the paper, the design, and the boom in building and business that took place in Ocala and.....
[New Haven, Conn.]: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, [1909]. Small octavo (18 x 11 cm.), xi, 102, [xxviii] pages. Advertisements. Date of publication from prefatory note. Errata slip laid-in. Evident FIRST EDITION. A compact school community cookbook with nearly three hundred recipes, the majority of them attributed. Notable among them: Cucumber Soup, Creamed Sardines, Fig Sandwiches, Cymling, Cabbage Pudding, Lemon Wafers, Belgrader Brod (i.e., Brot), Kum Baba Cake, Nanepashemet.....
London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., [1949]. Octavo (22 x 14.5 cm.), viii, 184 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, one color plate, eighty-three sepia-toned plates on and eight illustrations in the text. Index. FIRST EDITION. "... an intimate picture of Tudor, Stuart, and Georgian ways and means..." "... an account of the architecture, lay-out, furnishing, interior decoration, and all-round planning and functioning of homes throughout three centuries." Top edge red. Publisher's.....
London: Keen, Robinson & Co., [circa 1900]. Small octavo, 36 pages. FIRST EDITION. Rare collection of one hundred traditional English recipes, each now promoting the use of Robinson's tinned barley crystals. The tentative dating is based on the corporate history of the venerable Keen's mustard and Robinson's barley brands. Keen, Robinson & Co. was acquired by the Colman mustard company in 1903. Wear and staining to covers, paper lightly age-toned;.....
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Toronto: [the hotel; Rolph, Smith & Co.], 1881. Bi-fold menu (15.5 x 10 cm.), [4] pages. A handsome menu for "Christmas Day, 1881" at the Queen's Hotel. With its roots in 1844, Toronto's Queen's Hotel (established 1862) was a fashionable and luxurious lodging place not far from the city's Union Station. Distinguished guests included the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII), Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, Jefferson.....
Washington D.C. U.S. Department of Agriculture; [Government Printing Office], 1929. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (23 x 15 cm.), 8 pages. Photographically illustrated, and with an attractive illustration on the front wrapper. FIRST EDITION. One of the more interesting of the series of USDA Leaflets. A Preface by the authors claims this is a response to the introduction of Reindeer to Alaska in the first decades of the 20th century, "to.....
Norwich, Conn. [Richmond Stove Company, circa 1885]. Duodecimo (16.5 x 13 cm.), 64 pages. Illustrated. Date of issue surmised from patent information. Representative's stamp on cover: J. H. Wells, sole agent for Richmond Ranges, Stoves, and Furnaces, Portsmouth, N.H. True to its word, Richmond Receipts provides "hints and helps" beyond what is needed for baking and roasting – including a few entries for ice cream – in about one hundred.....
Seattle: Madrona Publishers, 1980. Octavo (21.5 x 15 cm.), x, 223 pages. Illustrated. Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index. Evident FIRST EDITION. A classic of modern food writing about the captivating capsicum. "Smitten by a love of hot peppers, journalist Richard Schweid traveled to the capital of the U.S. hot sauce industry, New Iberia, Louisiana. This is Cajun country, and capsicum (as hot peppers are known botanically) thrive in.....
Dresden; Oakton, Virginia: Anton Reiche AG; Oakton Hills Publication, [1883] 1983. Facsimile. Oblong quarto (21.5 x 28.5 cm.), [10], 40 pages. Printed rectos only in brown ink. Illustrated throughout. Number 426 of 500 hand-numbered copies, issued on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the National Confectioners Association. Hundreds of chocolate moulds are depicted. With a description of the Reiche factory in German and in English. Tan paper wrappers, decorated.....